1. Perfect life simulator
It was drizzling outside the window.
Su Wu looked at the rain outside the window and sighed silently. His mood was as gloomy as the sky outside.
It was drizzling three years ago today. The news of his parents' death was delivered to his school on that day.
Sitting at the desk, he picked up a watch.
The watch was an old item. When he was a child, he saw his grandfather always wearing this watch. Later, it was passed to his father.
Later, when his parents passed away, this watch came into Su Wu's hands.
He always carried this watch with him as a reminder.
The mirror of the dial was a little yellow and blurred, but the metal watch chain was still shining. At this moment, the hands under the mirror were motionless, stubbornly pointing to two fifteen.
"Why is it not turning?"
Su Wu frowned and looked at the stagnant hands. After he found this watch from his parents' relics, it had been turning all the time. This was the first time it stopped turning in three years.
Is it broken?
Pinching his thoughts, he twisted his fingers on the crown on the right side of the dial and tried to turn it.
However, the crown seemed to be welded to the dial. No matter how hard Su Wu's fingers exerted, it did not move at all.
He was a little anxious and increased his strength.
His fingers suddenly brushed against the edges of the watch side. The edges that would not hurt people were cut directly on his fingertips due to his excessive force.
Blood immediately seeped out, staining the dial glass red.
Su Wu quickly took out paper to wipe the blood on the mirror surface - but before he could wipe it, the blood condensed into a drop of blood on the mirror surface, and this drop of blood suddenly seeped into the watch and fell on the watch hand.
'Tick, tick, tick...'
The watch hand that had been stagnant started to move again.
It seemed to have received the help of that drop of blood.
The entire dial turned bright red, and then the bright red dyed the watch chain, tightly wrapped around Su Wu's wrist.
He saw the second hand, which was stained with blood, was rotating clockwise at a speed that was difficult for the naked eye to see, and it went through circles.
The direction of the minute hand and the hour hand also changed rapidly.
The hands were still rotating, and Su Wu's room fell into endless darkness.
A huge dial was suspended in the darkness, and all the hands pointed to the number '0'. A mechanical electronic female voice sounded in Su Wu's mind: "Welcome to the perfect life simulator!"
"You can consume Yuanyu and choose to simulate your own or other people's lives to find solutions to many life problems!"
"Currently, you can only simulate your future life. Do you want to start simulating?"
The series of female voices impacted Su Wu's mind. He saw that on the huge dial, the second hand pointed to the number '1', and a display screen appeared next to '1'.
Su Wu on the screen was sitting at the desk, frowning and thinking while looking at the empty palm of his hand.
Is this the life he can choose to simulate now?
Where does the consumed Yuanyu come from?
How did the watch passed down from my grandfather become the so-called "perfect life simulator" now?
Su Wu's mind was filled with chaotic thoughts.
These chaotic thoughts were washed away by the sound of the electronic voice: "After each simulation, you will get Yuanyu and other rewards according to your score."
Su Wu listened to the electronic voice and suddenly thought of his parents' bizarre death. Could it be related to this simulator?
His heart skipped a beat and he finally made up his mind.
——Maybe I can find some answers to puzzles from this bizarre life simulator!
"I want to start the simulation!" He responded in his heart.
"It is detected that the balance of your Yuanyu wallet is '5', and the personal life simulation consumes one Yuanyu."
"You can consume one Yuanyu for the first time using the perfect life simulator, and get a permanent talent at random. Do you want to consume it?"
Su Wu didn't understand why there was Yuanyu in his wallet. When he suddenly heard the simulator's question, he didn't hesitate and directly consumed one Yuanyu to draw a permanent talent.
No matter what game it is, in order to entice players to spend, the first charge reward will be set extremely valuable.
"Talent extraction..."
"Extraction successful! You get the permanent talent 'Calm (green)'."
"Calm (green): You have a cautious mentality that is more prominent than ordinary people. You can carefully observe the surrounding things in a chaotic situation and have a certain logical thinking ability."
The moment this talent extraction was completed, Su Wu's mind suddenly became clear. The many thoughts that were originally floating in his mind all calmed down, allowing him to carefully judge the current situation.
The calm talent is only green quality now. Does it mean that there are blue, purple, orange and other qualities above it?
The talents extracted by the simulator are not only used in the simulation game, but also directly on the real self!
"You can choose to consume a certain amount of Yuanyu to bring the real items into the simulation game. The options are as follows..."
Only one pointer is left on the huge dial, which keeps turning rapidly.
And the numbers around the dial have become items.
Option 0: Your body (consume 10 Yuanyu now, and you can experience the Sims in person. Any buff or buff to the body in the Sims is irreversible. If the body dies in the game, it will also die in reality)
Option 1: Half a pack of tissues.
Option 2: A machete.
Option 3: A crafted Han sword produced by a sword factory.
Option 4: Three folding stools.
Option 5: A set of cups.
……
Densely packed options were arranged around the dial, and all of them were items in the room where Su Wu was in the real world.
His eyes stayed on option 0 for a long time.
This game gradually exceeded his expectations, and he intuitively felt that the life he was about to simulate might also be extraordinary.
Except for option 0, all the remaining items only required one Yuanyu to be brought into the game.
Even so, Su Wu didn't choose any of them in the end.
He didn't have many Yuanyu, and he had to use them on the blade. Marrow knives, paper towels, and other things, are there not in the game?
As for bringing his own body into the game, that was even more impossible.
How could he block his retreat when entering the game for the first time? What's more, he didn't have ten Yuanyu.
Su Wu saw the pointers on the huge dial rotate one by one, all pointing to the number '1'.
The dial turned into dots of light and dissipated, and a prompt sounded: "Your future life has been successfully loaded!"
It was still dark in front of him, and Su Wu's scene seemed to have not changed compared to before.
But he listened carefully and didn't hear the sound of rain outside the window.
He tried to stand up, groping in this dark space, touched the table in front of him, and then moved along the edge of the table and touched a switch on a wall.
Pressing the switch, the dark space was instantly illuminated.
Su Wu saw two crabapple-colored desks put together and close to one wall, with a few books piled in the corner of the right table.
A laptop was closed and placed on the table.
There was a notepad on it.
He tilted his head slightly and saw a crabapple-colored bookcase behind him that was as tall as a person. There were many books that Su Wu was very familiar with, but these books were covered with layers of mold.
The four walls had yellow lines like those soaked in rain, and clusters of green mold spread along those lines to the surrounding areas.
"This is my room."
"After all, I have never thought of cleaning the room. It is normal that it will continue to be unchanged in the future."
"However, why is there so much mold in the room? Will there be a lot of rain in the future?"
Su Wu glanced at the window, but the window was completely covered by thick wooden boards that did not allow light to pass through.
"Why do you cover the window so tightly?" He felt a little strange.
He walked to the desk and looked at the calendar on the desk.
The calendar had crossed out the past dates with a red pen, and the uncrossed dates showed 'April 17, 2030 in the solar calendar'.
This date was exactly one week away from the real date in reality.
But Su Wu could not be sure that the time shown on the calendar was correct - sometimes he would remember to cross out the past dates after several days.
He picked up the notebook on the table and turned the familiar words page by page.
After his parents passed away, Su Wu began to have the habit of taking notes.
Not every day, but two or three times a week.
This habit, which was originally useless, has become a great tool for him to understand what happened in the past period of time.
‘April 10, 30.
During the morning meeting on Monday, the supervisor asked us to turn on our phones even on weekends and check the work group messages frequently.
Haha, he has a nice idea. I won’t. ’
‘April 13, 30.
Tomorrow is Friday, and we decided to go fishing in the countryside all night after get off work on Friday.
Wang Zhiyou asked the supervisor to go to a club to have fun on the weekend, and I happened to hear the whisper. Should I report them? ’
‘April 14, 30.
I reported it.
The weather seems to be very humid recently. There are many mold spots on the wall, and many books on the bookshelf are damp. It stands to reason that this is not the south, so is the air so humid?
Remember to turn out the books and dry them tomorrow. ’
‘April 16, 30.
I heard that several murders occurred nearby, and the murderer has not been found yet.
I didn’t ask about the specific location carefully, so I don’t know.
I forgot to dry the books, I’ll talk about it next week.
There are more and more mold spots on the wall. ’
‘April 18, 30.
The couple who lived upstairs died.
I didn’t dare to go and watch. I heard that the death was very horrible. I would definitely have nightmares if I saw it, right?
The tenants on several floors are preparing to move out. Moving trucks are starting to line up downstairs. Should I move to another place?
Is there something wrong with the structure of this room? It has been sunny these few days, why is there mold everywhere? ’
‘April 19, 30.
I smelled a slight smell of dead rats, but I couldn’t find where the rats were. ’
Su Wu turned to the last page.
The text on the last page did not record the date. A line of words was hastily written in red pen: So many people have died recently. Is the murderer really a human?
What does this mean?
What else could it be if not a human?
Su Wu felt a chill in his heart.
He closed the notebook. The chill in his heart had not yet dissipated. Suddenly, he smelled an extremely strong smell of dead rats between his nose wings.
A colder breath suddenly emerged from behind him and quickly stuck to his entire back!
What's going on!
He turned his head hastily, and only had time to see a black shadow suddenly stand up from the corner of his eyes, and then a burst of pain accompanied by the sound of flesh and bones being torn and broken rushed to the top of his head!
Su Wu looked down -
A bloody hole appeared on his chest.
A black hand with ten fingers without a drop of blood was moving on his chest.
Su Wu's eyes went dark.
